Concretize vs Realize - What's the difference?
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To make substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example.
* 1962 , , "How Some Speak and Yet Do Not Speak of God," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 23, no. 2, p. 275,
* 1999 , Sherry D. Akins, "Vital Signs: Teaching and Grieving," The American Journal of Nursing , vol. 99, no. 8, p. 88,
* 2003 , Larry Alexander, "Is Judicial Review Democratic? A Comment on Harel," Law and Philosophy , vol. 22, no. 3-4, p. 280,
To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.
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To become aware of a fact or situation.
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To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
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(business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
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(transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.
* (rfdate) (Washington Irving)
(transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
In transitive terms the difference between concretize and realize
is that concretize is to make substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example while realize is to cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.concretize
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Alternative forms
* concretiseVerb
- An essence exists if and only if it is actualized or concretized somehow , in some concrete form.
- But Ms. Yauger's death concretized these abstract discussions and theories.
- Rights in this way stem from social conventions that concretize and shape the values that underlie them.
Anagrams
* ----realize
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Alternative forms
* realise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(realiz)- We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
- That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
- Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.
- We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.
- Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.
- Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize , a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.
